I had a cooking/baking jag here yesterday. I also made my once-a-decade pilgrimage to the DMV (passed the eye exam–take that old age!) so it was a pretty special day in my world.
Since I probably already told you more than you wanna know about the DMV, I’ll bore you with my culinary exploits.
I started off with a fine Butternut Squash soup. The hardest part of this one was chiseling the skin off the squash. I nearly lopped a knuckle off doing that.
Next came an old standby: Roasted Sweet Potato/Tomato Soup
Then things got a little crazy. I decided to have a little ‘throwdown’ action. I love me some holiday baking but I don’t do nearly as much as I used to. I’ve never found a really, really good sugar cookie recipe. So I tried three different ones, all claiming to be ‘the best’ and find out for myself. Not one, not two but three batches of sugar-cookie dough were mixed yesterday. Bake-off and judging to come. First I NEED to go run! Stay tuned.
Do you have a favorite holiday cookie recipe?
That is too funny, Marcia – I just posted about soup and cookies, too! We must be in the same mental place :)- hope you’re not as crazy as I am! Your soup looks delish!
I tend to go on cooking jags, too. Must be all that pent up running energy we have. But sometimes I just do some “living room aerobics” 🙂
That’s impressive! I love soups and have been making one every week all fall/winter. I’m impressed you did two in one day, PLUS all the cookies. Well done.
The texture looks awesome! I’d love a bowl of that!
Both soups sound fantastic. Will you share the winning recipe with us?? 🙂
I was also wondering if one of the recipes turned out to be the best?
That roasted sweet potato?tomato soup looks and sounds amazing. I’m really wishing it was winter here now.
I don’t know if they count as cookies, but my mom makes peanut clusters which is basically chocolate covered peanuts and raisins all clumped together. They are AMAZING.